Re: [xml] Using libiconv

[xml thewrittenword com]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Mon,  2 July 20:06 xml thewrittenword com wrote:
> >   2. If you have both libiconv in /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib
> >      and you wish the one in /usr/local/lib to win, set
> >      LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" before running configure.
>
> I know this but this has nothing to do with the point.  You have
> misunderstood the problem.  libiconv *replaces* the iconv.h from glibc.
> The replacement iconv.h redefines the iconv_xxx functions to libiconv_xxx.  
> Since AC_TRY_FUNC finds iconv in glibc but the compiler includes
> the replacement iconv.h linking is guaranteed to fail.  But as you say,
> you haven't tried it so you wouldn't know.

You are correct. The only solution is to AC_TRY_LINK and #include
<iconv.h> to get the redefinitions before checking for iconv in $LIBS
or -liconv.

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)